Word: along
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a tough, imperialistic warrior shogun, was the first Japanese to dream of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an anchor for his international conquests, Hideyoshi chose Osaka, built a castle there in the latter part of the 16th Century. Hideyoshi and Osaka got along fine, and ever since then Osaka's merchants have done their best to keep alive his spirit. They gambled when the gambling was good, hedged only when they had to. They became and remain to this day the financial lords of Japan...
...himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who asked St. Laurent to come to Ottawa to discuss "an urgent matter." Next day, St. Laurent was asked to join...
...with his resignation ready. When he came home, Madame St. Laurent asked what kind of an impression he had made. Said St. Laurent: "Too good, I'm afraid." He had agreed to stay on as Secretary of State for External Affairs, a cabinet job that Mackenzie King had handled along with the Prime Ministry...
...inevitable comparisons between St. Laurent and King run to their political views and whether ex-Corporation Lawyer St. Laurent will go along with King's Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said...
...there any hope for more activity as the season grew older? Optimistic producers thought that the first few hits to come along would spread the old fever of investment among the angels. That was the way things usually worked out, but in last week's gloom, they were working in reverse. One producer, plugging away at raising money for a new musical, reported that one man turned him down "because he said it wasn't as good as South Pacific," the biggest hit in town...